Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-08-20
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Newspaper Gossip Concerning Mon and
Women of Greater or Less Fame.
Senator Call, OF Florida, whites his speeches
OH Old envelopes und circus bills
Cuatro Dctlos, the famous bull fighter,
cleared $4,000 during his recent trip IN
Mexico.
Stcpnink, tho celebrated Nihilist ,s,thor.
will visit the United States i'll September.
Mr. Tilden, according to Tho London
News, owned property i'll Eugland to tho
raluc Of Gl3S,O0O.
Senator Vance has named his new homo
"Gombrcon," after tho capital of Dr. Quinccys
imaginary Kingdom
Miss Anna Gorblc is the captain of II female
miAi, company in Savannah. Gu Tho lni-
Yates number tliirty-twp, and nre we'll drilled.
George Francis Train is said to have re-
Gently received and declined an offer of Slo,-
OG0 from n Chicago syndicate for series of
thirty lectures psw
Gen. Boulangcr's daughter Il about 10 te-
como nun, and his enemies say it is u
shrcwl dcvicc of Ills to curry favor with Tho
ClcricalS
Ex-Governor Rufus Bullock, of Georgia,
says the soushcrn people are just discovering
what the west learned a quarter of II ccntury
a.oc. that railroads must be the pioneers OF
developments
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, who is prraching
in and about London during his vacation
abroad, fairly takes the breath Of ,,roning
English churchgocrs by his rapi,l delivery.
The queen has ''conmaudedn the diStin-
suished American divine to appeM before
hei, II Windsor.
The Marquis de I&uvillc, who was going to
marry Mrs. Frank Leslie but did not, is now
reported ~ be tho son Of y London halter.
lie bough; his title and coat Of arms at n
gooi rouad Gsurc, and tho thrifty old gent
wo.iSs III the coat of arms rs trade mark on
lai Innings
Jonathan Il Green, who forty years ago
WAS widely known rs thc Reformed Cant
bier" and who has written four books on the
evils OF gambling, including ''confeSSion,"
is still living in Philadelphia, au,: has Just
celebrated his 18th birthday. lie is still
hearty, and able to work steadily Mt his trade
a. painter.
At the French bazlr held in London dur
In, the present season tho wheel OF fortune
was presided over by Miss Chamberlain, of
the United States She is no longer dcsig-
mated as tile American beauty not that
hcr charms are fading, but because other
American roses are blooming i'll England's
social larterre and sharing royal fnvols.
Miss Grace Howard, of Now York city,
has gone TO Dakota, where she has cstab-
lis.,et an industrial school for the Crow Greek
Indians Miss Howard hos not gone ont rs
70, h, IpGion
TO cut and make clothing and household arti-
Giles for themselves and their families. In
dian girls, Miss Howard says, do not mako
good servants, but they are willing and an1-
ious to learn to help themselves rs native
born American girls do.
buffalo Bill was never member of the
Nebraska legislature, says The Omaha World.
He ran once III Buffalo county against fell
low Of the name OF AshDurton uEd received
his certificate of election. Ashburton con-
tested the seat, however, and won, but lefore
the case was decided Cody had seut in his
resignation and made ready to embark in the
show business He would not have served II
ho lad been elected, and he could not huve
served il he had not resigned; so it is up
parent that no man in Nebraska has been
further from 81 legislative membership than
Buffalo Bill.
Tie Reno Journal says: s'Whcn Mr.. Glib
son took charge OF the Pyramid agency no
concluded to give names to all the Indian
children and has named them aftor his friends
or public men, The littlo folk are. proud Of
their American names and like to hear the
history Of tho great men they ore named
after Among the boys tl(cro Is Mark Twain
Professor Young, Bill Gibson, Andy Jack
son, Pete Dunno, John Logan, James G. Fair,
J. P Jones, John Gilig. Jim Elaine, DR..
Dawson, George Cassidy, jeff Davis and
many others. The girls have on Emma Ne
vada, Adelina Patti, Clara Morris, Ella
Bender, Laura Holman, Maud Donne, Lily
Snyder aud others"
Mrs. Jeanette 81 Thurber, whose name Is
known all over the country In connection
with the National Opera company, is u hand
some brunette with large h1xel eyes and
dazzling teeth. She wears her bair combed
high of her forehead In the style known us
that of La Pompadour. Her skirts arc like
the skirts OF any other woman's dress, but
she wears coat and waistcoat OF she most
ultra tailor made style, with turned down
linen collar held together with a loosely tied
silk tie. Her watch chain is made of E9yp-
tian scarabs, and runs through buttonbole
from wastcoet pocket to w;istcoat pocket.
On her shapely hands sue wears q nurnbor of
curious and valuable rings. In :be winter
Mrs. Thurber lives in New York. In tho
summer she rusticates Ill the Ca;Skills, tn a
very primitive style OF mountain cottage
which she calls "Lotos Land" Her writing
paper from "Losos Land" Is made to repre-
sent birch bark. and the imitation is so good
that one might think she Ind torn it OH OF tho
nearest tree rather than thatit came from
stationers shop.